False Prophets

Over the past few days I have been studying a document from http://www.bananajackson.com/ about the false prophecies of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. This document is great and introduces some irrefutable evidence that the Jehovah’s Witnesses follow a corrupt system that has made numerous prophecies that have never come to pass. What does the Bible tell us about such a religion? If someone is a prophet of God, how often will they’re prophecies be right? 25% - nope. 75% - nope. If someone speaks for God they must be right 100%. Every prophecy must be absolutely correct! According to the standard of Deuteronomy 18 if a prophet speaks for God and is incorrect they worthy of the death penalty. That seems to be a pretty rigid law, but if someone claims to speak for the Creator then they better be able to back it up.

This morning as I approached a JW on the street corner I began asking him questions about the Watchtower. Even as I read these prophecies to him he denied them and said they were still true! Huh? How can that be? I read the material straight from the Watchtower publications. Finally he asked me “What is the point you are trying to make?” So, I told him that by the standard of Deuteronomy 18 the Watchtower is a false prophet and should not be trusted according to the Bible. So, here comes the typical JW rabbit trail. He asked me “Do you believe that Jesus is God?” Yes sir, I sure do.”, I said. That sent him off on a whirl wind of Scripture quoting that I haven’t heard in a while. I really felt that he had me back up against a wall and pinned down pretty good. But I just keep praying silently to the Lord.

He asked me “Did Jesus say He was the Son of God?” Yes, He did I replied.

He continued “Then why do you say that He is God”. I told him this “Let me answer your question with a question – You say that Jesus said He is the Son of God so therefore He is not God to you. But Jesus also said He was the Son of Man. By your logic does that mean He is not a man?” He really didn’t know what to say. He just kept going back to that one Bible verse. He then handed me his Bible and asked me to read the first five versus of John 17. I did and he kept stopping me every time Jesus called God his Father and when He called Himself the Son.

Then I read verse 5 which said “And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”

Immediately my mind went to:
Isaiah 42:8 - I am the LORD, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.

So, I asked him. Who will God share His glory with? He got that deer in the headlights look. So I asked him again. Who will God share His glory with? He said I know Isaiah 42:8. He told me “I’m not going to say how God can share His glory with Jesus because that is something between them only”. I left him with this “I know how God can share His glory with Jesus because Jesus is God. It’s that simple”.

This morning a JW call me a liar, a blasphemer, and he told me that I was also calling Jesus a liar. I ended our talk with a handshake and by asking him to check into the prophecies of the Watchtower because ultimately it doesn’t matter what I believe or what you believe it only matters what it true. Truth by its own definition is very narrow. There is only one right answer and many wrong answers. That one right answer can only be the true Jesus of the Bible.